Erik Prosperin

Erik Prosperin

male, deceased (1803)
Erik Prosperin (1739-1803) was a Swedish astronomer. He was lecturer in Mathematics and Physics at Uppsala University in 1767, professor of...
Ernest William Brown

Ernest William Brown

male, deceased (1938)
Ernest William Brown (November 29 1866 - July 22 1938) was an English-born mathematician and astronomer, who spent the majority of his career...
Eduard Schönfeld

Eduard Schönfeld

male, deceased (1891)
Eduard Schönfeld, German astronomer, was born at Hildburghausen, in the duchy of Meiningen. He had a distinguished career at the gymnasium of his n...
Johann von Lamont

Johann von Lamont

male, deceased (1879)
Johann von Lamont (December 13,1805 - August 6,1879) was a Scottish-German astronomer and physicist. He was born in Inverey, Scotland and moved to...
Carl Otto Lampland

Carl Otto Lampland

male, deceased (1951)
Carl Otto Lampland (December 29 1873 - December 14 1951) was an American astronomer. He earned a degree at Indiana University and then went to...
Franz Xaver Kugler

Franz Xaver Kugler

male, deceased (1991)
Franz Xaver Kugler was a chemist, mathematician, Assyriologist, and Jesuit priest. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1885, and the following year...
Lewis A. Swift

Lewis A. Swift

male, deceased (1913)
Lewis A. Swift (February 29 1820 - January 5 1913 <sup></sup>) was an American astronomer. He discovered or co-discovered a number of comets,...
Viktor Safronov

Viktor Safronov

male, deceased (1999)
Viktor Sergeevich Safronov is a Soviet astronomer who was one of the first to put forward a consistent picture of how the planets formed from a...
Cornell Mayer

Cornell Mayer

male, deceased (2005)
Cornell H. Mayer (1922-19 November 2005) was a radio astronomer, who famously was the first to accurately measure the temperature of Venus by...
Bhāskara II

Bhāskara II

male, deceased (1185)
Bhaskara (1114 - 1185), also known as Bhaskara II and Bhaskara Achārya, was an Indian mathematician-astronomer. He was born near Bijjada Bida (in p...